This is exactly what I needed to know. No, I haven't tested ReiserFS, Mandrake
kernels are hard to recompile(for me at least). I'm not sure what options need
to be selected(ie. last time I recompiled, my SB Live stopped working).
Another question. ALSA seems to support more sound-cards than the Free OSS
drivers, are there any plans on integrating ALSA into the distro or are you
waiting for 1.0 release?
Simple bug,
There is a bug into the current 7.02 release concerning my cdrom. I have an
ATAPI burner as my only cd drive and when Mandrake installs, it adds
hdc=ide-scsi to the lilo.conf, but the /dev/cdrom does not correspond to
/dev/sr0 as it should, rendering the cdrom entry in fstab useless unless i do
"cd /dev && rm -f /dev/cdrom && ln /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom".
If you could fix this tiny bug in DrakX it would be great.
With respect,
Taras
Thank you for your replies
Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Taras Glek wrote:
> >
> > http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/ says "3.5.18[ReiserFS] is out, and
it
> > is stable".
> > SuSE is going to support ReiserFS in the 6.4 release, I would imagine
that
> > they have throughly tested the filesystem. If you need to throughly test
the
> > fs, why dodn't you intergrate it into the Cooker ASAP(you would have to
do
> > that at some point). I would be among the first to try it out.
>
> have you tested it ?
> the format of the fs change on 2 months, the smp support is not as
> stable as ext2 one.
> As for 2.4 support, it trashes when you stress it (sometimes just by
> untarring a kernel).
> And it lost all its speedups on ext2 while porting from 2.2.x to
> 2.[34].x.
> As for suze, they are annoyed as the future 2.4.x reiserfs has another
> format and (at this moment) don't support the 2.2.x format.
> As for fsck, it's broken and even dangerous on 2.[34].x (when you patch
> it in order to get it to compile - i wonder why they do printk in a
> userspace program ?).
> And don't speak of other arch such as alpha support: the fs bitmaps are
> not endian safe ...
>
> Yes, it's a promising fs, but not as stable as ext2 for the moment.
> We'll consider it support when its stability, it portability among
> ix32/alpha/usparc/ppc will be sufficient.
>
>
> > jfs and ext3 have not reached version 1.0+ yet and Reiser FS seems to be
much
> > more machure than xfs(just an impression from the version numbers).
> >
> > Vandoorselaere Yoann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Taras Glek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have a 27G hard drive and fscking it can take quite a while with
> > Mandrake
> > > > 7.02 using ext2 filesystem. I would love to see reiser fs supported
by
> > > > Mandrake as soon as possible so I wouldn't have to wait as long
dueing
> > boot
> > > > up. SuSE and a number of other distros plan to have Reiser FS support
in
> > their
> > > > upcoming releases.
> > >
> > > It's in our plan too.
> > > But don't forget there is some other interesting filesystem to come :
> > > xfs, jfs, ext3...
> > >
> > > Also,
> > > Changing the filesystem will require *heavy* stress test...
> > > We can't afford a critical bug to be discovered in reiserfs after
releasing
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